Motivational Quotes

Prayer

You should pray for a sound mind in a sound body.

- Juvenal

Best Quotes about Prayer

Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness.

Gandhi, Mahatma

Father in Heaven! When the thought of thee wakes in our hearts let it not awaken like a frightened bird that flies about in dismay, but like a child waking from its sleep with a heavenly smile.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him.

Peale, Norman Vincent

Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon.

Gide, Andre

God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers and thrust the thing we have prayed for in our face, like a gauntlet with a gift in it.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Your prayer must be for a sound mind in a sound body.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

But if it were I, I would appeal to God; I would lay my cause before Him. He performs wonders that cannot be fathomed, miracles that cannot be counted. [Job 5:8-9]

Bible

Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.

Socrates

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You should pray for a sound mind in a sound body.

Juvenal

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A single grateful thought toward heaven is the most perfect prayer.

Lessing, Gotthold

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Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Ask God's blessing on your work, but don't ask him to do it for you.

Robson, Dame Flora

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Pray. To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.

Bierce, Ambrose

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When a man has done all he can do, still there is a mighty, mysterious agency over which he needs influence to secure success. The one way he can reach it is by prayer.

Conwell, Russel H.

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The fates are not quite obdurate; they have a grim, sardonic way of granting them who supplicate the thing they wanted yesterday.

Montgomery, Roselle Mercier

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Prayer is less about changing the world than it is about changing ourselves.

Wolpe, David J.

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There are few men who dare to publish to the world the prayers they make to Almighty God.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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We are all weak, finite, simple human beings, standing in the need of prayer. None need it so much as those who think they are strong, those who know it not, but are deluded by self-sufficiency.

Phillips, Harold C.

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Prayer is the slender nerve that moves the muscle of omnipotence.

Tupper, Martin

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To pray is to pay attention to something or someone other than oneself. Whenever a man so concentrates his attention -- on a landscape, a poem, a geometrical problem, an idol, or the True God -- that he completely forgets his own ego and desires, he is praying. The primary task of the schoolteacher is to teach children, in a secular context, the technique of prayer.

Auden, W. H.

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If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.

Eckhart, Meister

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Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

Graham, Ruth

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The time of business does not with me differ from the time of prayer, and in the noise and clatter of my kitchen, while several persons are at the same time calling for different things, I possess God as if I were upon my knees at the blessed sacrament.

Lawrence, Brother

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The wish to pray is a prayer in itself. God can ask no more than that of us.

Bernanos, Georges

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Do not make prayer a monologue -- make it a conversation.

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Don't put people down, unless it's on your prayer list.

Michalski, Stan

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Practical prayer is harder on the soles of your shoes than on the knees of your trousers.

O'Malley, Austin

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Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks.

Brooks, Phillips

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Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The influence of prayer on the human mind and body is as demonstrable as that of secreting glands. Its results can be measured in terms of increased physical buoyancy, greater intellectual vigor, moral stamina, and a deeper understanding of the realities underlying human relationships.

Carrel, Dr. Alex

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Whatsoever we beg of God, let us also work for it.

Taylor, Jeremy

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Practice in life whatever you pray for and God will give it to you more abundantly.

Pusey, Edward Bouverie

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Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Pray that you will never have to bear all that you are able to endure.

Proverb, Jewish

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Prayer is talking with God and telling Him you love Him, conversing with God about all the things that are important in life, both large and small, and being assured that He is listening.

Strait, C. Neil

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Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.

Proverb, Russian

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One single grateful thought raised to heaven is the most perfect prayer.

G. E. Lessing

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Most men pray for power, the strength to do things. Few people pray for love, the quality to be someone.

Foster, Robert D.

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So I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.

Bible

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Common people do not pray; they only beg.

Shaw, George Bernard

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A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer.

Lessing, Doris

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Indeed many things which we shall not be able to discover either by the experiment of works or by the investigations of reason we shall deserve to be taught by importunate prayer, by the revelation of divine inspiration.

Richard of Saint Victor

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All that I am or hope to be I owe to my angel mother. I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.

Lincoln, Abraham

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More than once I had seen a noble who had gotten his enemy at a disadvantage stop to pray before cutting his throat.

Twain, Mark

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When we take one step toward to God, he takes seven steps toward us.

Proverb, Indian

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Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths, or the turning inwards in prayer for five short minutes.

Hillesum, Etty

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Spiritual favors are not always to be looked for, and not always to be relied on.

Barr, Amelia E.

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Short prayers reach heaven.

Proverb